Anyone else an exclusive pumper? I've had to pump while my nipples heal from breastfeeding.

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How do you have so much friggin milk? My baby is 3 weeks old and I'm lucky to get 5 oz (1-3oz if she recently fed (this is from both boobs)) I'm dying to get my production up so I can get a supply going

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I am exclusively breastfeeding, but would love to start pumping more so I can have a stash for when my husband and I go out without the kids.

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I have been exclusively pumping since we came home from the hospital and I couldn’t get my daughter to latch anymore and we had to supplement with formula due to her loosing too much weight. Within five days she was above her birth weight. She is 3 weeks old today and I have over 300 ounces in the freezer.

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I had same issue. My nipples were cracked, bleeding and peeling. I cleaned my nipples well with olive oil. Then a soaked two cotton wool in olive oil and placed inside my bra on my nipples. My nipples literally healed overnight.

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I am! I have been since I got mastitis in both breasts at 6 days postpartum. I am now 5.5 weeks and I have 400 ounces in the freezer. Once I got mastitis her latch got worse and my nipples were in so much pain. So I decided to pump exclusively like I did with my son. Plus my husband and son can help feed her!

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Have you noticed your supply decreasing from pumping only? I’d love to exclusively pump as breastfeeding is KILLING my nipples they hurt so bad.. but I’m scared to lose my supply

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I BF, use the haakaa and pump. My baby will be 3 weeks old on Thursday and we have a painful latch that I’m still working through...it’s getting a lot better but the initial latch hurts still and after a minute I’m fine. I pumped and bottle fed here and there to give my nipples a break while still latching as much as I could handle. The last few days I’ve only bottle fed maybe 1-2 times a day and nursed the rest. I love using the haakaa while she nurses I can get anywhere from 1-4oz with each feeding helping me build a milk stash. I don’t know exactly how many oz I have in the deep freezer I lost count and have to go sort them out (using my aunts deep freezer at her house since I don’t have one) and count how much I have but I know it’s well over 200oz. I don’t pump after every feeding because she’s only about 3w old and my milk hasn’t regulated yet which could cause an over supply making it easier to get clogged ducts and mastitis and I definitely don’t want that! I only pump when I’m replacing a nursing session with bottle feeding. I exclusively pumped with my first 4yr ago and I will tell you my supply was terrible. I had so many issues and low supply and after a few months she wouldn’t take formula at all so there were days I didn’t know if I’d have her next bottle which was super stressful. Now I have an amazing supply and not worried about that! I believe because shes latching and nursing better than my first. With my first we only latched for the first 5 days then that was it, it hurt to bad and she wasn’t happy and seemed like she wasn’t getting enough so I decided just to pump and we did so for the whole first year!

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I have 29 bags in my freezer! I’ve actually ran out of room and had to start dumping sometimes 😬

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